"The only President who clearly died of overwork was Polk, and that was a long time ago. Hoover, who worked intensely and humorlessly as President, lived for more than thirty years after the White House; Truman, who worked intensely and gaily, lived for twenty"

-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#Years Quotes #White Quotes #Long Quotes

“The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.”

Source : Thomas Francis Meagher (1885). “Speeches on the Legislative Independence of Ireland”
“Grown-ups do a lot of complaining!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.”
“Depend upon it; from every condition of distress or evil, there is a great reaction, and the greater the distress or evil, the greater the reaction.”
“To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.”

Source : "Simplicity". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,
“After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.”
“A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.”
“True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided by an intelligence far greater than the human mind.”

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